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Creative Nonfiction
 1 min

29 Minutes Of A Blue Moon

Annika Carlson

The shafts of blue moon light remind me.
My grandmother still asks about you.
About us. A story from long ago with no ending chapter, no final page, no definite conclusion. Just words ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

My Coming of Age Album

Christina Mitchell

When my best friend and I reminisce on the iconic “Mitchell family vacations,” our annual trip down the shore, the most compelling memory is the car ride there. Along with the sweltering heat and lack ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

Fragile

Noah Summerhays

Every now and then, my extended family goes up to our family cabin near Smith Morehouse Canyon. We have a quiet time there, taking in the scenery and spending some good family time together. It’s a ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

Stop the car

Angela Larson

I tiptoed out of the car, immediately felt the force of frigid air against my face, heard the gravel crunch beneath my shoes. It was just me, the sound of my shifting footsteps, and a vast, dark ...  [+]
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Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

New Jeans

Rebecca Varnell

I didn’t tell anyone that I cried.
After we’d come back from the store, my roommates each reluctantly headed back to their rooms, to the homework they’d left undone. I lingered in the living room ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

Bone Deep

Alexis Dykes

My bones belong on the East Coast. Or maybe they belong to it. Whatever the case, they certainly seem to think it’s the only proper place to be. Bones can think things like that, I suppose, even ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 1 min

Meadows and Mountains

Scotlyn Turner

I remember when I moved to Utah.
I had gotten in the moving van, stepping off the road of my childhood home for the last time. Now, I hear the hammering thrum of the vehicle drive away, my ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

Lord of the Mice

Kyle Tanner

Youth activities at church always aimed to teach us some new skill. We rarely fantasized about service projects and even the most honorable among us would likely miss a “wonderful opportunity” if he ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

The Sweet Kiss of Wilderness

Amanda Lovell

We were driving down Highway 37 on our way back from Dawson City, Yukon. We had been on the road for almost three weeks and we were spent. Long days of driving long B.C. roads that carried few people ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

The Bear

Skylar Gruys

The sky dimmed dauntingly, the depiction dark. A stagnant air was wallowed in.

I observed it out the car window; eerie, or perhaps just foggy. Its hiss was unmissable. It was previously a ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

Homesick

Bethany Gustafson

Homesickness is a funny thing.
In the eyes of the American government, I’m an alien. A legal one—I have a student visa to prove it—but an alien still, as though I arrived in a spaceship, and, with ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

Polaroids of Poor

Emma Hostetter

As a child, I assumed that I had done some extraordinary deed to make it on Santa’s platinum edition nice list, which meant presents not only in December, but a bonus delivery during his off-season ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

Beauty

Madison Banfield

Beauty. What is beautiful? It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is determined individually. Beauty is not universal.

Beauty captivates me. What is beautiful in my eyes ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

This is Why We Tell the Story

Jaden Parker

If I took you on a tour of my childhood, our first stop would be my childhood home, a small place with big memories. I’d show you the attic where my brother and I played or the room we shared. I’d ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

A Crappy Story for a Change

Bruce Decker

It’s 7:37pm, and I am standing on the arrow pointing the direction to shop in the aisle at Walmart. It smells like cleaner and cookies from the surrounding aisles. In my right hand I hold nothing ...  [+]